6. Disrupting the Debate
By Alexandra Ellerbeck
A screen shot of the Twitter account of Ecuadoran journalist Bernardo Abad. An English translation of his tweet reads: “They blocked my account for showing public documents from the internal revenue service (SRI). Lenin Moreno didn’t pay taxes in 2015.
(CPJ)
On July 10, 2016, Ecuadoran journalist Bernardo Abad tweeted that the former vice president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, had not paid income taxes for the year before. A week later, Abad received a message from Twitter saying his account had been blocked for violating its terms of service. Within 24 hours, at least five others’ accounts ...
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